Metromode Takes A Holiday

It’s that time again… Metromode’s staff will be indulging in a little holiday R&R (along with copious amounts of spiked nog). We’ll be back January 14th with more tales about the people, places, and businesses dedicated to innovating and evolving Metro Detroit. From Jon, Tanya, Kelli, Terry, Marvin and myself, we wish you a joyful holiday and a wonderful New Year.

As a little treat — a virtual stocking stuffer, if you will– I’d like to point you toward two little-known but classic holiday ornaments.

The first is the H. L. Mencken short story, A Bum’s Christmas, which is touching, funny and witty in a way that the legendary newspaperman and satirist was known for.

It opens…

“Despite all the snorting against them in works of divinity, it has always been my experience that infidels–or freethinkers, as they usually prefer to call themselves– are a generally estimable class of men, with strong overtones of the benevolent and even of the sentimental.”

And from there it just gets better and better.

The second holiday morsel is this YouTube video I dug up. Once upon a time the television networks saw themselves as more than just pop culture bullhorns and bottomless marketing machines. Occasionally they tried to inject some class and sophistication into their programming. This holiday promo created for CBS by R.O. Blechman in 1966 is the perfect example. Enjoy!

-Jeff Meyers
Editor